Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house made of blocks of snow, such as those built by the Inuit.
- noun A dome-shaped structure or building.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the Eskimos, a dome-shaped hut, usually built of shaped blocks of hard snow, with a window made of a slab of ice.
- noun Hence — The excavation which a seal makes in the snow over its breathing-hole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Eskimo snow house.
- noun (Zoöl.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dome -shaped Inuit shelter , constructed ofblocks cut fromsnow . - noun zoology A
cavity , orexcavation , made in the snow by aseal , over itsbreathing hole in the sea ice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In North America, this latitude can land you in igloo territory.
Saunas and Silence 2009
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In North America, this latitude can land you in igloo territory.
Saunas and Silence 2009
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An igloo is a much more comfortable place to sleep.
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They build in a circle and bevel the edges of the blocks so that the igloo is shaped like a bee-hive.
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The snow houses they call _iglooweuks_, or houses of snow; the stone and earth shelters are _igloosoaks_, or big igloos, the word igloo, in the
The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell Dillon Wallace 1901
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There are not so many elements added in the pictures below, so it may not look very friendly to look at at this state, but once all the books, magazines and favourite CDs are on the shelves, this igloo could be a very inviting hideout for someone with a passion for reading.
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Happily the temperature in the igloo was a balmy -1.5 degrees C.
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Happily the temperature in the igloo was a balmy -1.5 degrees C.
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Happily the temperature in the igloo was a balmy -1.5 degrees C.
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Our igloo was a vacuum which was filling itself up as soon as possible: and when snow was not coming in a fine black moraine dust took its place, covering us and everything.
The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922
BrainyBabe commented on the word igloo
Its Inuktitut meaning is "dwelling" in general, not specifically a snowhouse, although that is its meaning in English.
December 23, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word igloo
What you use to repair a broken ig.
February 25, 2009